Pittsburgh

[ pits-burg ]

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noun

a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.

Pittsburgh

/ ˈpɪtsbɜːɡ /

a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, which form the Ohio River: settled around Fort Pitt in 1758; developed rapidly with the discovery of iron deposits and one of the world's richest coalfields; the largest river port in the US and an important industrial centre, formerly with large steel mills. Pop: 325 337 (2003 est)

Pittsburgh

Leading industrial center, long known for its steel mills and more recently for high-tech (see also high-tech ) industries.

Gays have won, Mr. Barron said in his op-ed for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Christians are now “outlaws” and “martyrs.”

Buffalo ranked tenth in the nation, while Detroit and Pittsburgh ranked twelth and thirteenth, respectively.

The indicted are not going to show up at the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh to surrender to federal marshals.

To test out a doll he designed to have realistic human proportions, Nickolay Lamm went to a group of second-graders in Pittsburgh.

At a rally in Pittsburgh a week before the election, Johnson laid out an ambitious, transformative vision for the United States.

Half of Pittsburgh spliced on to half of Philadelphia would make a city very like Glasgow.

I am speeding toward Pittsburgh, the very heart of the industrial struggle of America.

This is Pittsburgh, the heart of American industrialism, whose spirit moulds the life of the great Nation.

East End, the fashionable residence quarter of Pittsburgh, lies basking in the afternoon sun.

He himself is a Pittsburgh man for the last twenty years, but he was "born and raised" in the South, in Atlanta.

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